Dec
10
2008
For anyone who uses ESPN.com’s fantasy section for football, basketball, college, and so on should have heard of the ‘Streak For The Cash’ mini game ESPN has. A quick description of this game is each day you pick a sports match-up, either who will win, which running back will have more yards, point margin, and things along those lines. The ultimate goal is to get a “Streak” of 25 wins by December 31st. You can pick a few games per day, but only one at a time. Whoever can do this gets $1 Million from ESPN. 2nd best streak gets $10,000 and so on. Well, the magic number of 25 in a row has been touched by ‘Bigsam1122′ and he has won himself the money. His real name is Samuel Louis-Charles from Bristol, Conn. ESPN.com/fantasy has a photo of him with one of those oversized checks made out to him. Congrats to Samuel for winning. Now 2nd place is still up for grabs and I just checked and its at 19 and 18 for the following players. Also each month the person with the most wins within that month gets a nice cash prize. If you haven’t checked ESPN.con/fantasy out, go do so and maybe next year sign up for Streak For The Cash. Again congratulations to Bigsam1122 for getting 25, well it says 26 currently and getting that money.
Aug
24
2008
Yep. A husband and wife have won tha lottery twice, each worth $350,000! Kinda odd huh? Tha man is an accountant who says he has came up with a formula for lottery picks, and now they have each won. Must be a damn good formula, I wouldn’t mind finding that out. He could make some more money selling his formula on tha internet if he ever wanted too.
They are Verlyn and Judith Adamson. Each had a winning ticket for the state’s SuperCash drawing. Kinda odd to walk in with two winning tickets. But check this out, they also had 2 more winning tickets!! Thats fuckin crazy.
Their total came to $1.4 Mill, but with taxes only about $955,000 - Thats a great prize to win, must be a great formula this guy developed.
All 4 tickets were purchased at 4 different locations. But had tha same numbers and were for tha same drawing. They left a voice message on their phone saying that they would not have any public comments about this. They also referred any and all questions about this, to their lawyer Scott Thompson.
Verlyn said he is a big fan of math puzzles and claimed to develop a formula for lottery picks. Up until this huge jackpot he has only won small amounts. What a pay out!!
Their lawyer has stated that tha Adamsons are acutally ‘exploring patent protection’ for this formula they developed and won from! So looks like they are protecting it and could sell it..maybe? If tha price is right it could be worth it..
Steven Post who is a mathematics professor at Edgewood College located in Madison, where it all happened, has said there is no possible way to create a formula for finding tha winning numbers in this type of game that uses randonly generated numbers to create a winning combination. So that makes you question this. When I first heard tha story I thought scam or rip off. I figured they cheated in some way.. Hopefully we’ll find out tha truth behind this story..
